Feminist Quotes

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.

You want to be a corporate success; you want to be an entrepreneurial success. That's the beginnings of the feminist movement which sought to emulate men.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.

Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

I don't try to be feminist. I just am. It's innately inside me. I have no interest in trying to be the perfect feminist, but I do believe feminists are in good hands with me.

When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too.

To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.

I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism.

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's PC and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

A feminist jumps out of a manhole - oh, and she didn't like that.

Kurt [Cobain ]was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney [Love] I think has to deal with gender bias and the media, and I think that he liked that she was taking the attention off of him.

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.

A male feminist is one of the most glorious end-products of evolution.

Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.

Women are feminist by default.

You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.

We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!

I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.

I am more feminist than feminists.

I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

Once you run and once you win with an unabashed progressive feminist standard, then it becomes easier for everybody else who's running.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all of its varied manifestations.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.